Buckle



(No Model.)

A. E. WINLOW.

BUCKLE.

No. 462,755. Patented Nov. 10,1891.

WITNESSES: INVENTOI? ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT E. \VINLOVV, OF SAN J OSFJ, CALIFORNIA.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,755, dated November 10, 1891.

Application filed December 17, 1890. Serial No. 375,010. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT EDWARD WIN- LOW, a citizen of Great Britain, residing at San J os, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it most nearly appertains to make, use, and practice the same.

My invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in buckles or fasteners; and it consists in the details of construction, as will he hereinafter more fully set forth in the specification.

The object is to provide a buckle so constructed as to permit of the ready uniting or fastening together of two independent straps or pieces of rope, and at the same time present a device which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive of production, and effective in operation.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the more simple form of the device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of another form embodying similar characteristics of construction. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modified form, and Fig. 4 is a detail view of the tongue shown in Fig. 3.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings, the letter A indicates the stationary angular portion of the buckle, the part a forming the rear end thereof. Integral with the part A is a cross-bar a, which is provided at one end with annular shoulders a (L The letter B indicates the movable angular tongue, the member I) thereof forming the forward end of the buckle. The part of this tongue which forms one side of the buckle is provided with an eye I), which is received between the annular shoulders a a of bar a and is free to turn thereon. In practice one end of the strap is passed under end I), over cross-bar a, and over end a. It is obvious 7 that the greater the tension exerted on the straps the greater will be the binding thereof; or, in other words, the free ends of the angular tongue will be made to bear more firmly against the stationary or frame portion.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the same form or arrangement, excepting that there are two stal tionary portions (indicated by the letters A A) and two tongues B B, united in such a manner as to form one buckle. The crossbars in this figure are indicated by the reference-letters a and a. In securing the straps within this form of buckle I pass the same under the forward end thereof, over cross-bar (L3, over the intermediate cross-stri p, under cross-bar a, and finally over the rear end of the buckle.

In Fig. 3 the letter A indicates the angular frame, and a a the cross-pieces, having the tongues B 13 formed integral therewith. The inner ends of the tongues are beveled and are some little distance apart, so as to leave anopening for the ready insertion of the straps, which are first passed under the forward end, over the cross-bar a under crossbar a, and finally over the rear end bar.

The herein-described invention may be employed with equally good results as a connecting medium for securing reins or hitchingstraps to posts and for analogous purposes.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A buckle or fastener for straps, consisting of stationary and movable angular members arranged to form a rectangular frame, the movable members adapted to turn upon one or more cross-bars, so as to open or close the frame, said bar or bars forming an integral part of one of the angular members and adapted to work through an eye or eyes in the other angular member, being confined therein by annular shoulders, substantially as set forth.

2. In a buckle or fastener for straps, the combination, with an angular stationary member having its side piece provided with eyes. of tongues or pieces constituting the opposite side of the buckle, said tongues having their inner ends beveled and out of contact to afford an opening for the insertion of the strap, and also formed or provided with cross-bars which turn in the eyes of the stationary frame, substantially as set forth.

I11 testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT E. WINLOW.

\Vitnesses:

N. A. ACKER, M. G. LOEELER. 

